’Opening up the institution does not mean opening a door,
it means opening up our mind with respect to this patient’.
Franco Basaglia, 1979, Lesson/Meeting with the Trieste Nurses
Because of these words and because of these situations, we started to understand...
Leros Greece Europe (1989/94)
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“In English-speaking cultures, experience is a crucial word.
It is life which builds upon itself, which stratifies, event upon event, surprise upon surprise, painful moment after painful moment. What results is the form of knowledge, it is knowledge itself.
Without experience, there is no knowledge which can resist against time.”
Enzo Siciliano (reviewing a new book by Martin Amis).
Learning by Doing
How can We be sure of working for Mental Health
( Freedom and Responsability in Community = Participation)
and not for a new Psychiatry ( = Exclusion)?
Click here for a practice-based answer!
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